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Shareholder Identification and Registration Shareholder Identification and Registration Report by a Working Group mandated by the European Post Trade Group December 2015 1 1. Introduction 1.1 European Post Trade Group / EPTG Tasks and Composition The European Post Trade Group (EPTG) has been set up in 2012 on the recommendation of the European Group on Market Infrastructure. It is a joint initiative between the European Commission, the ECB, ESMA and the industry. Its members are representatives of the key players involved in post trade issues which participate in the group’s work as experts. The initiators intended to drive the dismantling of barriers to cross border safety and efficiency including identifying new issues that have developed since the second Giovannini report in 2003. The mandate also comprises encouragement to propose to compliment the legal framework in those areas as well as the work of the ECB on its Target Securities project. 1 The EPTG has set up an action list and several initiatives have been commenced. 2 1.2 EPTG Working Group Shareholder Identification and Registration Tasks and Composition During the discussions in meetings of the EPTG several issues have been identified to warrant further attention including shareholder identification and questions of “registration” procedures and the relation to settlement. Two sponsors have been designated and a Working Group has been set up.3 This Working Group was set the task to do a fact-finding exercise with respect to the two issues to identify the concerns and expectations of market participants to develop a pan- European model for both in order to propose procedures not to interrupt straight through processing (STP) in cross border exercising of shareholders rights and cross border settlement. 1 http://ec.europa.eu/finance/financial-markets/clearing/eptg/index_en.htm 2 The European Post Trade Group (EPTG) Annual Report 2013, p. 12 seq. This report has the date December 2015. 3 Paul Bodart (T2S, Advisory Board); Paola Maria Deantoni (SG Securities Services, Italy); Christine Strandberg (SEB, Sweden); Florentin Soliva (UBS, Switzerland); Olivier Connan (SWIFT, Belgium); Marc Younes (until 7/2015) and Thiebald Cremers (BNP Paribas, France); Michael Kempe (Capita Asset Services, London); Ramon Hernandez Peñasco (Emisores Espagnoles, Spain) 2 The group sees itself as a successor to the T2S Task Force on Shareholder Transparency which has delivered its final report on 28th February 20114 and also in the context of the Joint Working group on General Meetings5. Those initiatives have shown a need for a better and pan-European solution for, and a strong interest in, shareholder identification and registration questions. 2. Description of the issues under review 2.1. Economic and Legal Concept Shareholders are members of a company. The historical model is that all members are known to the company and know each other. Over time the finance need of growing companies and the increasing demand of persons looking for opportunities to invest money expecting a return lead to a significant increase in the number of shareholders for companies and to two different legal concepts, one being that shareholders should be registered with and known to the company and the other being that shareholders could acquire their position as an investor and a shareholder in a company by acquiring a physical certificate (a bearer share) evidencing the participation in a company and stay unknown to the company. Sometimes the company would obtain knowledge of the shareholder when they wished to exercise their shareholders´ right, e.g. voting rights in a general meeting. The bearer share usually had the following characteristics: (i) the bearer was unknown to the company (thus “société anonyme” in France); and (ii) the participation was evident in a physical share certificate and the holder of this certificate was deemed to be a shareholder and actually became a shareholder by acquiring this certificate under applicable law rules, normally security law rules based on rights in rem concepts. Several changes have occurred in the last decades. The vast majority of European shares are now dematerialised in the sense that physical certificates are not commonly held anymore by shareholders but have been replaced by electronic bookings of shares into security accounts. Local securities law frameworks have been adapted accordingly. In addition, trading has taken proportions that were not imaginable a few decades ago. Finally, whilst companies are growing larger, investments are becoming more and more 4 http://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/t2s/progress/pdf/subtrans/st_final_report_110307.pdf. Please also see the comprehensive domestic market survey of shareholder transparency practices as compiled by the T2S Task Force on Shareholder Transparency at: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/t2s/progress/pdf/subtrans/st_analysis_regimes.pdf 5 Which has drafted “EUROPEAN MARKET STANDARDS FOR GENERAL MEETINGS “(see: http://www.ebf-fbe.eu/european-industry- standards/. The standards have been endorsed by market participants and their associations. 3 international. As a by-product of these two changes, nominees and sub custody have grown in importance and practice. Where this has grown, the disconnect between investor and issuer has grown, meaning that whilst each intermediary has clearly identified clients and their ownership in their systems this is not transparent to issuers. As a result, we are today in a situation where a bearer share or a share registered in the name of a nominee (see below) are shares where everybody in a custody chain except the issuer knows who is “the end investor” identified in his books or another intermediary in the chain that is his client. This needs to be put against the background of a desire to encourage investors to better exercise their rights, the increasing powers of the General Meeting (cf. Revision of the Shareholders Rights Directive) and against the growing need to identify shareholders. The concept of registered shares is that shareholders are known to the company, and in most European member states where this concept exists the register is updated when they acquire or sell shares and any acquisition or sale of shares is disclosed to the company6. The company has to maintain a shareholder register in which it has to book any change in shareholdings and in shareholders. Most European member states have company laws which provide for only the person being entered into the share register deemed to be a shareholder. Historically, registered shares were also materialised in physical share certificates but recently this has often been replaced by electronic bookings into security accounts when acquiring shares7. Most European member states have well working domestic solutions for forwarding the data of an investor having directly invested money into a share (“end investor as defined by the market standards for General Meetings8 and by the T2S Task Force9. 6 Italy has the concept that a shareholder’s register is updated not in connection with acquisition or sale of shares but when a general meeting or a corporate action takes place. At that moment, the intermediary is obliged to communicate in a special format the relevant information to the issuer enabling the issuer to update and maintain a shareholder´s register 7 The CSDR mandates dematerialization by 2025 across all EU states, but this does not necessarily concern the relationship between issuer and end investor. 8 As defined by the market standards on general meetings of 2010 the definition of end investor is as follows: “end investor shareholder is the natural legal person who holds shares for its own account, not including the holder of a unit in a UCITS (undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities).” The end investor is normally an “account holder” i.e. has a securities account with a bank or another intermediary which may also be a securities account holder upper-tier in a custody chain until it reaches a securities account at the CSD. The “shareholder” is the natural or legal person recognised as shareholder under the applicable corporate law of the issuer, which should not but may differ from the “end investor” and is therefore the person that formally (but if this is not the end investor, not economically) may exercise the voting and dividend rights. The terms end investor and “beneficial owner” are widely used synonymously although “beneficial owner” is a US law concept under the UCC which cannot be fitted perfectly into the European legal system. It seems that under this concept the ownership (or “title” or “right in rem” which has effects against all persons = erga omnes) in a security is taken away from the end investor and transferred to an intermediary and replaced by a contractual right of the end investor against that intermediary not having effect erga omnes. Under European law the “legal owner”, i.e. the natural or legal person that acquires the legal title to the security as the result of the securities transfer (settlement) according to the applicable securities laws should always be the end investor in order to protect their interests and their investment. 9 T2S TASKFORCE ON SHAREHOLDER TRANSPARENCY - FINAL REPORT TO THE T2S ADVISORY GROUP, at: see footnote 4 4 While the forwarding of data for registered shares functions well in a domestic situation where an end investor maintains a security account with an intermediary (often a bank) in the country where the issuer is domiciled such forwarding of data is sometimes more complicated and often less efficient cross border. This leads to a situation that not all end investors would be registered in a share register (where the end investor is required to be entered into the register which is not required in all markets) but intermediaries like custody banks, providing custody services for end investors or other intermediaries. Cross border custody chains involving several intermediaries are common, starting at the Central Security Depositary (CSD), normally involving global custodians and other custodians down to the end investor and the last intermediary providing security account services for this end investor.
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